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I attended a writing seminar many years ago and the speaker – – who was pontificating from his “I am great” platform – – told the gathering that the use of a semicolon would guarantee a rejection slip. As a long-time semicolon user (and lover), his proclamation scared the bejeezus out of me. Fortunately, the [...]
If you write or read Fantasy and Sci-Fi, you may want to check out this free offer over at Amazon. It’s a free subscription to Fantasy and Sci-Fi Digest. Amazon notes that most subscriptions have a free 14-day trial period, but this “this exclusive digest edition of “Fantasy & Science Fiction” magazine is always free [...]
I think one of the earliest ghostwriters on the Planet was Cyrano de Bergerac, the poet whose love letters written for Christian, a young cadet, won the heart of Cyrano’s own love, the beautiful Roxane. Edmond Rostand’s play, written in 1897, has been played out time and again, from the 1950 Jose Ferrer film to [...]
It’s almost on us again: National Novel Writing Month – – do you have what it takes to join NaNoWriMo, the fun “seat-of-your-pants” approach to novel writing? Here’s the deal, per the NaNoWriMo site: Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.
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